Supermarkets · Michigan

Leppinks Howard City

Howard City, MI · ~55 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leppinks Howard City runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Leppinks Howard City: 3.9 TCR = 114% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leppinks Howard City safety composite

Leppinks Howard City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2017→2024

Leppinks Howard City injury rate improved

Leppinks Howard City's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Howard City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #249/536
  • PHOTO 306WOR
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 306WOR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Leppinks Howard City in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Leppinks Howard City averages 3.9 TCR (114% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Leppinks Howard City TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Leppinks Howard City falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #249 safest of 536 Supermarkets employers in Michigan.

Leppinks Howard City (55 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Leppinks Howard City
Leppinks Howard City (55 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Leppinks Howard City has fewer employees than the Supermarkets median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 10.2 5.1 4 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.2 4.6 4 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MI · Howard City

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Howard City, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 306WOR 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HQ 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR D'Agostino #815 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0400 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6375_14893 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ludington Pump Storage 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buchanan Office Nuclear 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Mile Road Service Center 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolverine Worldwide - Distribution Center 55 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard City 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR DTW Transport, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dean Transportation, Inc. - Howard City 23 FTE
NAT-TCR C046 Terre Haute 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Annandale Elementary School 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Barrels Unlimited Inc. Fresno 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Worth 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE O&M Jewell 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vandalia 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kawasaki Rail Car Inc - Greenbelt 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix House Orange County, INC. 55 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.